empressement
Example Sentences
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At the station M. Bouc was greeted with respectful empressement by the brown-uniformed Wagon Lit conductor.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
They kiss each other warmly, the younger woman with tender empressement.
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
She greeted me with an empressement totally at variance with the terms on which we had parted upon the previous evening.
From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Laurence Oliphant
"I hope we shall meet again," he said, with no small empressement.
From Helena's Path by Anthony Hope
I called on your mother a week or two ago; she always asks after you with empressement, and is very civil indeed to me.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
